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Dressed in brown shorts and a pink blouse, the blond girl giggled as she slid barefoot on the hardwood floor Thursday night.

"I'm surfing," Annie Rose Pisanello said.

Moments later, she said the kind of thing that reminds her mother how much innocence her daughter lost on Dec. 14.

"I forgot who shot Dre and Jen," she said.

"You forgot about Dre and Jen?" asked her mother, Megan Szczepanik.

"No, I don't know who shot them."

"You don't know who shot them?"

"I forget."

"Was it Oliver?"

"I just forgot."

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That may be a good thing.

About 6:30 a.m. that day, Berns­dorff, 36, walked right by the spot in the living room where Annie had been sleeping. He went into the bedroom where Andrea Pisanello — the woman Annie had known as her other mom — was with her new girlfriend, Bernsdorff's ex-wife.

Bernsdorff shot and killed both Pisanello, 53, and Jennifer Davis, 27. Several miles away, he also shot his two children — Olivia and Magnus, 4 and 2 — at his home in Clearwater. And later, he killed himself.

That morning, Annie was at the apartment because Pisanello was Szczepanik's ex-partner. Szczepanik is Annie's biological mother. Pisanello was Annie's other parent.

Bernsdorff spared Annie, who has since been in therapy with a psychologist.

"She has done amazingly well," said Szczepanik, 32, a licensed clinical social worker at the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.

In the weeks after the murders, Annie spoke incessantly to Szczepanik about what she had seen.

Bernsdorff walked by her on his way to the bedroom, Annie told her.

Annie had known him since she was a baby because Szczepanik, Pisanello and Annie attended church with Bernsdorff, Davis and their two children at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater.

That's why Annie was not afraid when she heard the gunshots, Szczepanik figures.

After Bernsdorff left, Annie wanted to go to the bathroom.

She called for "Dre" — Andrea.

When Pisanello did not come, Annie cried. She walked to the bed and shook Pisanello.